off, and the locally, and my day job is helping to supervise immigration attorneys at the immigration clinic at davis. i see a range of clients that have pressing needs. while we all hope and wish for compehensive immigration reform, i have got to tell you from what i've heard the last several months, the question we all have to ask ourselves is at what price? if we get an immigration bill introduced that a serious blow for the spring, i'll tell you right now the provisions i will not be happy with. i know they're going to be in there. you should be aware of these provisions. first of all, the price that the estimated 10 million to 12 million undocumented immigrants in the country may be to pay is they may all be forced to plead guilty to a crime before they can file their application. that is before they actually have to pay a fine that is attached. right now what is seriously being discussed is what level of crime should they have to plead guilty to before they apply for legalization. should it be a misdemeanor or in a fraction? that is going on right now. the second thing is an attack on

give you some ideas that get at the immigration issue and the potential and the need for reform in a way that is a little bit less traditional in that it's almost clinical. i'm going to try to present some economic arguments. i'm going to present some kind of structural social arguments and i'm going to worry you a little because to have the economist law professor opening with an analogy to a science fiction film. don't worry, it works out ok. some may have not seen this film. it's one of my favorites. it starred uma thurman and jude law. it's a near future in which individuals are gentically engineered and it's the story of two brothers. one is enneared to be terrific and great and wonderful and one is not. it's a story about their efforts to succeed. there is one part of the story that resonates so well and is a strong metaphor for immigration and it's the following -- they would have a contest as adolescents and as adults they would swim out in the ocean, and the first one to turn back would lose. it was a simple contest. and in theory, in every possible way in theory, the engineered brother should have won. he was stronger, bigger, better, more fit

before joining the faculty, she taught at harvard clinic -- harvard kennedy school. she covers race of the immigration and race in american politics. she is author of a book and numerous articles and book chapters. last and not least, -- he provides strategic counsel to corporate and nonprofit clients. during the 2010 congressional elections, he was a democratic political analyst for cbs news and before that i fixture on cnn. please join me in welcoming our panelists today. [applause] i was going to start off by talking about the economy and we will have plenty of time to get to that. but i wanted to talk about voter turnout and voter support, says that was something the was brought up in the last sessions. 2008 was at an historic election for many reasons. it was the election of the first african american president and turnout was unprecedented. we saw a drop in 2012 -- in 2010. in 2012, how we recapture the excitement of 2008? will the issue is be on the table be enough to drive african-americans to come out in the numbers that they did in 2008, given what we saw in 2010? >> i think there are a numb

immigrants, what the obama administration now says it won't do. >>> in this bad economy, the number of kids who are homeless or uninsured is growing. i'm mary ann favreau and i'll show you how this mobile clinic is making a difference. >> also, what happens to your old electronics? your tv, your phones, everything. we'll sba hou yth have e eabaar company recycling these electronics for free fp >>> the new statewide numbers will be releasedtomorrow, but as of tonight, here are the numbers. one in ten bay area workers are unemployed. the job market remains down rs beat. with california losing 1 million jobs over the past five years, the state is stuck in double digits with 11.8% unemployment rate. not surprisingly there was a big crowd at a job fair in hayward today. it was the first ever for the alameda county office of education, and it won't be the last. alameda county's 18 school districts have about 100 job openings, and not just for teachers. baby boomer employees are retiring and the county says it's looking for good people to replace them. workshops and counseling are part of this process. job openings are welcome news in the education field, which has seen so many cuts at almost every